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DRY- FARMING CONGRESS, WICHITA, 1914 



farmer and the national and state agricultural departments; to create and 

 maintain a cooperative educational propaganda in behalf of agricultural 

 development; to ascertain and furnish when desired, actual facts concerning 

 the agricultural possibilities of all territory embraced in the work of the 

 organization; and to discourage and prevent, as far as possible, all dis- 

 honest exploitation of land projects; to prosecute at all times the study of 

 crops, soils, climate, precipitation, evaporation, the effect of altitude, lati- 

 tude and general conditions, upon farming operations, and to disseminate 

 the information so obtained; to provide a clearinghouse for the advanced 

 ideas and information gleaned by the various national and state experiment 

 stations, and to cooperate with said stations to the utmost extent; to en- 

 courage individual effort in developing the safer system of agriculture 

 which has been and is being evolved by this organization and its members, 

 and by others engaged in like work. 



ARTICLE 3. — Officers. — The officers of this Congress shall consist of 

 the President, Honorary Vice-Presidents and three active Vice-Presidents. 



There shall be an Executive Committeeman for each State and Territory 

 in the United States and for each Nation and Province represented by mem- 

 bership in the International Dry-Farming Congress; a Secretary and a 

 Treasurer or an Executive Secretary-Treasurer, as may be deemed advis- 

 able by the Board of Governors. 



The Executive Committeemen shall be selected by the delegations rep- 

 resenting the various States, Territories, Nations, and Provinces in the 

 annual sessions of the Congress; and shall be submitted to the Committee 

 on Nominations for report to the Congress. Vacancies may be filled by 

 the Board of Governors either during or after the annual sessions of the 

 Congress. 



The Secretary and Treasurer, or Executive Secretary-Treasurer, shall 

 be selected by the Board of Governors. The President and the Vice-Presi- 

 dents shall be elected by viva voce vote or by ballot, a majority of the votes 

 of all the members present being necessary to choice. Retiring Presidents 

 of this Congress shall be ex-officio Honorary Vice-Presidents. 



ARTICLE 4.— Executive Officers— The Executive Committee shall 

 elect its own Chairman. The Secretary of the Congress shall be the Sec- 

 retary of the Executive Committee. The Treasurer may be required to 

 furnish bond for the safe conduct of his office and shall make report to the 

 proper officers or committee to be appointed by the Executive Committee 

 at such times as may be designated. No indebtedness shall be incurred 

 unless there shall be funds in the hands of the Treasurer to meet the same. 



The Chairman of the Executive Committee shall designate a committee 

 of nine, including the President of the Congress and the Secretary, which 

 committee shall be known as the Board of Governors, and which board shall 

 be empowered to transact all business of the Executive Committee during 

 the interval between the annual sessions. The Chairman of the Executive 

 Committee shall be the Chairman of the Board of Governors. 



The Board of Governors shall meet at the call of the chairman. Any 



